Yes, they promise all kinds of privacy safeguards. No, you should not believe them.

An absolutely terrible idea.

And yes, being forced to upload your drivers license or a selfie is the same thing as surrendering your anonymity.

In 2022, I published a book about the importance of anonymity to free speech. I knew that anonymity was under attack globally but never imagined its collapse would be this fast.

When we look back at the death of the open and free global internet, the legislative and judicial developments of 2026 will play a starring role.

Essay | The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth From Socrates to social media, society has always worried about protecting the young. But the latest ruling about Meta and YouTube overlooks the upsides of free speech.

Jacob Mchangama and I have a piece in the WSJ about the dangers of regulating online speech. www.wsj.com/politics/soc...

Platforms used all kinds of automated content curation as early as the 1990s. This is discussed in court opinions! And Congress passed 230 so that platforms would not be “passive carriers.”

I imagine that the New York Times won’t correct the latest error about Section 230 on its op-ed page, but it should.

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@mchangama.bsky.social and @jkosseff.bsky.social will discuss their forthcoming book about how free speech can meet modern challenges at @politicsprose.bsky.social in Washington, D.C.

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

In 2022, I wrote a book about the history of anonymous speech because I was worried that we eventually would lose the ability to be anonymous online. I did not predict how quickly it would happen. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

Will Section 230 last another 30 years?

A very special someone has a big birthday tomorrow.

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A huge honor to receive the latest review of our book from one of my free speech heroes.

Our book has a cover and I love it! Coming in April 2026.

The webpage for our forthcoming book! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Have you been sent here from another planet to destroy me?

Countries routinely use hate speech laws to punish political dissent and criticism of public officials.

ah, I’ve missed Bluesky

It’s happening.

It doesn’t need to be this way.

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It always comes back to the crowded theater.

Proposed Idaho state law could make some lies a felony crime with prison time Idaho House Speaker Mike Moyle introduced a bill to make it a felony crime to knowingly spread malicious lies about someone.

So this is concerning, especially because last year SCOTUS denied cert in a case challenging the constitutionality of criminal defamation laws. www.foxnews.com/us/proposed-...

So this happened last night.

Posting hateful speech online could lead to police raiding your home in this European country In the U.S., most of what we say online, even if it's hate filled, is protected by the First Amendment as free speech. But in Germany, prosecutors and cops police the internet.

Pretty amazing that 60 Minutes does an entire segment about Germany prosecuting people for online posts and does not include even one voice raising free speech concerns. The segment looks like it was produced by the German government. www.cbsnews.com/news/policin...

Unlike CJEU, SCOTUS is at least supposed to try to apply the First Amendment.

This opinion gives a roadmap for any future court to accept national security or privacy as a pretext for laws and actions that are intended to limit speech (as the bill’s supporters readily admitted).